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From the award-winning Angela Slatter, author of *The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings* , *All The Murmuring Bones* , and *The Path of Thorns* , comes a collection of twelve short stories showcasing the scope of her extraordinary talent. Throughout *The Wrong Girl and Other Warnings* , Slatter shows us that ‘innocent’ should never be mistaken for ‘safe’, while spinning tales of witches, Victorian-era detectives, bad parents, unrepentant killers, and ancient wisdom. In “A Matter Of Light”, detective Kit Casswell is called upon to lend her experience with the supernatural to a very unwilling consulting detective. In “Widows’ Walk”, a quartet of witches band together in a single house, secretly working to protect young women. In the titular tale, “The Wrong Girl”, a frustrated artist turns the romance of her fickle friend and tiresome sister into a deadly masterpiece. Wry, savage, and written with the precision of a writer at the top of her game, *The Wrong Girl and Other Warnings* is a gift to those who already love Slatter’s fiction and those discovering her exquisite stories for the first time.

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